North Carolina · Nonprofit
Junior League of Asheville Inc
Junior League of Asheville Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,620 to it, the largest being GLEN P AND LAURA MAE ROBINSON FOUNDATION ($4,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $112k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Junior League of Asheville Inc does
Mission
The Junior League of Asheville, Inc. is an organization of women committed to promoting voluntarism, developing the potential of women, and improving our community through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Junior League of Asheville established the community recovery fund in response to hurricane helene.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Junior League of Asheville (JLA) started the Community Recovery Fund which provided $65,000 directly to non-profits in the area impacted by Hurricane Helene.
$131,031 spentof which $83,000 as grants100% of program spendingJLA committed a $100,000 donation over 5 years to Helpmates new emergency shelter.
JLA established The Spirit of the Wild Legacy Scholarship for youth education programming at the WNC Nature Center committing $15,000 over the next 5 years.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $131,031.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $929k to $1.2M (+27%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
66% of Junior League of Asheville Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Samantha Gillies
Nominating Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $238 → $200.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Junior League of Asheville Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Junior League of Asheville Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 86% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
Junior League of Asheville Inc draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Junior League of Asheville Inc's revenue fell 88% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Junior League of Asheville Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Junior League of Asheville Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Junior League of Asheville Inc?
- Junior League of Asheville Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,620 to it, the largest being GLEN P AND LAURA MAE ROBINSON FOUNDATION ($4,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Junior League of Asheville Inc have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $7,620 in grants to Junior League of Asheville Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Junior League of Asheville Inc?
- GLEN P AND LAURA MAE ROBINSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Junior League of Asheville Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing